"Sitting with her mother on the sofa against the wall was a beautiful young woman," Moore wrote. "I learned that her name was Kayla."

Special person

In his book, Roy Moore said he had seen Kayla "many" years earlier, although it doesn't specify how old she was when she first caught his eye. Women who spoke to the Washington Post said Moore asked them for dates in the late 1970s. Moore left Alabama in 1983, traveled to Texas and Australia, and returned in 1984, around the same time he met Kayla Kisor at the church Christmas party.

"Many years before, I had attended a dance recital at Gadsden State Junior College," Roy Moore wrote. "I remembered one of the special dances performed by a young woman whose first and last names began with the letter 'K.' It was something I had never forgotten. Could that young woman have been Kayla Kisor? Anxious to meet her, I began with the line, 'Haven't we met somewhere before?'"

Roy Moore wrote that he had a sense that his relationship with Kayla would be significant.

"I knew Kayla was going to be a special person in my life," Roy Moore wrote. "Long afterward, I would learn that Kayla had, in fact, performed a special dance routine at Gadsden State years before."

Kayla Moore was divorced and had a young daughter when Roy Moore married her in 1985. She was an adult when they dated and married, but she did attend school with the woman who accused Roy Moore of sexual assault in a Monday appearance orchestrated by attorney Gloria Allred. Beverly Young Nelson said she was a sophomore at Southside High School in 1977, alongside Kayla Kisor.

In the Washington Post story from last week, four women said Moore asked them for dates when they were between the ages of 14 and 18. He was in his early 30s at the time and working as a prosecutor in the Etowah County District Attorney's Office. The paper reported that he initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old, and the most recent alleged victim said he groped her and grabbed her neck soon after she turned 16.

Moore has denied the allegations from Nelson and the four women who spoke to the Washington Post and said he doesn't know the two women who said Roy Moore touched them inappropriately.

In an interview with Sean Hannity, Roy Moore said he didn't "generally" date women in their teens when he was in his 30s.

"I don't remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother," Roy Moore said during that interview with Hannity.

An enduring partnership

Roy and Kayla Moore have been married for 32 years and have four grown children.

Kayla Moore is president of the Foundation for Moral Law, the non-profit founded by her husband after he was removed from the Alabama State Supreme Court in 2003 for displaying a granite monument to the Ten Commandments. The organization offers legal support for conservative Christian issues such as public prayer and opposition to same-sex marriage.

Kayla Moore earned $195,000 over three years as the head of The Foundation for Moral Law, according to The Washington Post. The same paper reported that Roy Moore had taken an undisclosed salary of $180,000 a year between his two incomplete terms on the state's highest court. Roy Moore has disputed the Washington Post's reporting about his salary.

Kayla Moore defended her husband in an interview with Breitbart News.

"You know we met at a Bible study -- that's where we met," Kayla Moore said. "We raised our children at in Bible-focused Christian home. You know, it's just not true -- any of it."

She reiterated her support in an impromptu press conference last night in Gallant, where she and Roy Moore live.

"These things are false, and it's ugly," she said. "It's the ugliest politics I've ever been in in my life."